Dogs have always been well known for their sensory organs and thus, this is the only animal used to detect humans, bombs, drugs etc. Dog sensory organs have once again created history after a Japan researcher has declared that dogs apparently can detect colorectal cancer.





According to a researcher form Kyushu University, a 8 year old female labrador Retriever, can detect the presence of Colorectal Cancer with the help of smell, with the accuracy level of 98%.


This dog was trained for water rescue and was able to detect 12 types of cancer until she joined the Cancer Study. The study was undertaken by Dr. Hideto Sonoda. The aim of the study was to detect whether cancer be detected with odour. Under the study Dr. Hideto took stool and breath samples of 40 cancer patients and 320 healthy people. "The tests were conducted from November to June, because the dog's concentration tends to decrease during the hot summer season," Sonoda noted.

After the completion of the research Sonoda reported that the dog was able to tell colorectal cancerous samples from noncancerous samples. "Moreover, canine scent judgment even appeared to be highly accurate for early-stage the cancer," Sonoda said. Based on the study which proved that dog can detect Colorectal cancer, the researcher reported that evaluation of breath samples was accurate 95% and stool sample was accurate 98%.

Dog was able to detect Colorectal Cancer even in people who were smokers and stomach disease patients. The test was undertaken three times, "The results of all tests were correct, thereby suggesting that a specific cancer scent indeed exists," said Sonoda.

At the same time Sonoda made it clear that even after being proved that dog can detect Colorectal cancer. They cannot be taken as the only source for detection. "Canine scent judgment yielded correct answers for these cancers as well, suggesting that common scents may exist among various cancer types. We hope that the results of the present study will provide encouragement for the development of cancer detection and solving the biological character of cancer using odor material," he said." Sonoda said.

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Unveiled yesterday, February 1, the Art Project is “a unique collaboration with some of the world’s most acclaimed art museums to enable people to discover and view more than a thousand artworks online in extraordinary detail.”


Over the past 18 months, Google and 17 prestigious art museums have worked together to bring art to you, giving the viewer an intimate and personal look into celebrated artists and artworks. The project includes a virtual gallery with 360 degree tours using Street View technology, super high resolution images, and the ability to curate your own collection and save it to the computer.



Can’t get to the palace of Versailles? Don’t worry, through the Google Art Project, you can still marvel at its gilt ceilings and lovingly decorated halls. Never had the chance to see a Rembrandt or a da Vinci or a Caravaggio up close? Always wanted to visit an Egyptian temple or stand before a grand statue of a Buddhist priest? Google’s got them all.



Discover the brushstrokes of a van Gogh painting or the intricate flowers in a Botticelli work, listen to audio guides, find notes on the history of each work and its artist, share your favorite work with friends, and explore each museum.



The seventeen museums participating in the project include:

Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

Uffizi Gallery, Florence

The Frick Collection, New York City

Tate Britain, London

The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Museum Kampa, Prague

Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin

Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid

Palace of Versailles, Versailles

Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian, Washington, D.C.

National Gallery, London

Museum of Modern Art, New York City

Gemaldegalerie, Berlin



With over one thousand artworks on display, Google’s virtual museum is a groundbreaking new technological advancement in the museum world, bound to change the way we view and experience art. Works range from Louis Comfort Tiffany’s Autumn Landscape window at the Met, to The Ambassadors by Hans Holbein at the National Gallery, to the intricate 18th century Peacock Clock located in The State Hermitage Museum, to beautifully designed Islamic bowls from the Freer Gallery, to Botticelli’s La Primavera at the Uffizi, and to the large plaster sculptures of modern artist Miloslav Chlupac at the Museum Kampa. With Google Art Project, there is something for everyone, a chance to connect with art across the world and beyond our time.

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An iPhone multimedia manager

Create personal ringtones from MP3 songs for the iPhone. iPhone Explorer will enable you to download or upload music, photos, videos or ringtones from or to your iPhone.



Search engine to find your favorite music and video artists, titles, genres, album, title of a year and much more. Explore the iPhone file system. Use the iPhone as USB-Stick.

Requirements:

· Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5
· iTunes





Direct Download ....

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At last year's CeBIT, ASUS showcased what looked like a dual-display laptop concept that did away with the keyboard, relying solely on touch input. However, touch technology was not as advanced last year as it is now, which is likely the reason why ASUS has not been able, so far, to find a practical implementation for that device. Now, however, after a year's worth of technological advancements, MSI is showcasing a similar idea at the Hanover expo, although its product roadmap is just as vague as ASUS' was in 2009.



We have already managed to score some close-up shots of MSI's GT660 high-performance gaming notebook, the company's Hydra 200-enabled Big Bang Fusion motherboard and its 3D all-in-one desktop PC. With the short-term now covered, the company was able to look somewhat farther into the future of mobile computing.

Basically, Micro-Star international has set up a nice exhibition of dual-display mobile PCs in multiple color themes. Dual display, in this case, does not refer to configurations that put two screens side by side in order to enlarge the workspace. Instead, the second display is built where the keyboard and touchpad usually lie. This means that MSI aims to eventually do away with the keyboard and touchpad entirely, relying solely on multitouch input.

The concept of dual-screen laptops could be seen as a preview of what all portable computers might eventually look like. Of course, the PC maker will somehow have to solve the problem of deteriorating touch films and use a more efficient backlighting technology in order to allow a decent battery life. Still, one cannot argue that the idea is, at the very least, interesting.

It remains to be seen whether the future of computing will inevitably bring about the death of keyboards, although, even if this eventually occurs, it will likely not be in the near future.

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As some of you will certainly remember, a few days ago, NVIDIA took a serious jab at its direct competitor in the GPU market, accusing it of tweaking drivers in order to obtain better benchmark results, and now, you'll be able to see what AMD has to say on this whole situation.



NVIDIA, with the backing of certain high-rated hardware sites, claimed that users had to push to “High” the Catalyst AI texture filtering setting for AMD 6000 series GPUs instead of the default “Quality” setting in order to provide image quality that comes close to NVIDIA’s default texture filtering setting.

Practically, NVIDIA claimed that the AMD Catalyst 10.10 drivers brought about a 10% performance advantage by lowering their default texture filtering quality in benchmarks, while reducing image quality in the process.

Those of you who've managed to go through our article on this topic will certainly remember that, at the time, we'd already contacted the company's reps in order to obtain an official answer to their competitors' very serious claims.

And sure enough, AMD was kind enough to provide us with an official comment, that we'll relay to you as follows:

We are committed to the PC gaming community and take all feedback on image quality very seriously. To that end, we have recently revisited the current default image quality settings used in Catalyst drivers and found them to be on par with the default settings provided by our competitor.

We take great care in determining the default settings of Catalyst drivers and believe current settings deliver a very good gaming experience.

To ensure the best possible experience for our customers, AMD provides the industry’s most comprehensive set of controls, allowing users of AMD Radeon graphics to find their own perfect balance between image quality and performance.

So, in other words, AMD sort of rebuffs NVIDIA's claims, without going into too many technical details (as compared to the green team, who was pretty on topic from this point of view).

Anyway, we'll just have to leave it as that for the time being, at least until we get a chance to see for for ourselves whether NVIDIA's claims are true or not, but until then, if you have encountered such problems with the Catalyst drivers, please, don't hesitate to relay it to us in the comments section.

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Using the High Pass Filter to Sharpen Images.

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Here we go again creating a cool effect in Photoshop. This tutorial was originally written for the July-August Tutvid.com Newsletter and finally I am getting it uploaded! We cover creating text and converting that to paths and editing those paths to create a custom typeface. We also cover a textured effect as well some other great techniques and useful tips in Photoshop.

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